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dc.contributor.authorHuang, YTen_US
dc.contributor.authorWen, Cen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-15T12:38:47Z
dc.date.available2014-01-22en_US
dc.date.issued2014-02-25en_US
dc.date.submitted2018-06-08T14:29:56.685Z
dc.identifier.issn1126-6708en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/39664
dc.description.abstractA remarkable connection between perturbative scattering amplitudes of four dimensional planar SYM, and the stratification of the positive Grassmannian, was revealed in the seminal work of Arkani-Hamed et al. Similar extension for three-dimensional ABJM theory was proposed. Here we establish a direct connection between planar scattering amplitudes of ABJM theory, and singularities thereof, to the stratification of the positive orthogonal Grassmannian. In particular, scattering processes are constructed through onshell diagrams, which are simply iterative gluing of the fundamental four-point amplitude. Each diagram is then equivalent to the merging of fundamental OG 2 orthogonal Grassmannian to form a larger OG k , where 2k is the number of external particles. The invariant information that is encoded in each diagram is precisely this stratification. This information can be easily read off via permutation paths of the on-shell diagram, which also can be used to derive a canonical representation of OGk that manifests the vanishing of consecutive minors as the singularity of all on-shell diagrams. Quite remarkably, for the BCFW recursion representation of the tree-level amplitudes, the on-shell diagram manifests the presence of all physical factorization poles, as well as the cancellation of the spurious poles. After analytically continuing the orthogonal Grassmannian to split signature, we reveal that each on-shell diagram in fact resides in the positive cell of the orthogonal Grassmannian, where all minors are positive. In this language, the amplitudes of ABJM theory is simply an integral of a product of d log forms, over the positive orthogonal Grassmannian. © 2014 The Authors.en_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of High Energy Physicsen_US
dc.rightsThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
dc.titleABJM amplitudes and the positive orthogonal Grassmannianen_US
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.holder© The Author(s) 2014
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/JHEP02(2014)104en_US
pubs.issue2en_US
pubs.notesNo embargoen_US
pubs.publication-statusPublisheden_US
pubs.volume2014en_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2014-01-22en_US


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